Work-From-Home Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering | Frontier AI Specialist

Let's cut straight to the facts: RemoteWork Talent Agency is actively recruiting a qualified Work-From-Home Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering | Frontier AI Specialist at a verified rate of $7 - $8/hour. This is a 100% remote contract designed for reliable professionals with verified competency in Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture. Our research partners need clear, rigorous human judgment to audit operational workflows and eliminate errors—simple as that. Fast onboarding, prompt weekly compensation, and zero administrative friction.

Daily Workflow & Core Objectives

• Turn messy data into trusted systems: Transform fragmented operational and product data into consistent, high-quality sources of truth.
• Enable self-service analytics: Build the infrastructure that allows engineering, product, and business teams to answer questions independently without relying on manual data requests.
• Own product analytics infrastructure: Establish the event tracking, instrumentation, data models, and reporting foundations needed to understand product usage and performance.
• Automate data operations: Leverage AI coding agents and intelligent automation to accelerate pipeline development, data validation, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Build for reliability and scale: Establish data quality standards, observability, governance, and scalable architectural patterns from the beginning.
• Raise the engineering bar: Mentor engineers, establish strong data engineering practices, and lead architectural decisions through hands-on execution.
• Staff-level engineering expertise with extensive hands-on experience building and operating production data platforms.

Essential Skills & Experience

• AI-native engineering habits: You already use AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow and actively automate repetitive development and data engineering tasks.
• Ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing scalability, simplicity, performance, and engineering velocity.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards.
• You've been the founding or early Data Engineer responsible for building a company's first real data platform.
• You've designed data systems that support both traditional analytics and AI-powered applications or autonomous agents.
• You have experience building semantic layers, data discovery systems, or structured interfaces that make enterprise data accessible to AI.
• You've automated substantial portions of data pipeline development, validation, or maintenance using AI agents.

Rate Breakdown & Work-From-Home Terms

• Compensation Rate: $7 - $8/hour (verified contractor remuneration)
• Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
• Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
• Core Competencies: Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture
• Hiring Lead: Marcus Vance (Principal Talent Lead) at RemoteWork Talent Agency

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